Publications

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Peer-Reviewed Articles

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  • Lagunas-Robles G, Bentz BJ, Verma M, Vandygriff J, Hansen M, Simmonds T., Corpuz R., Kauwe A., Geib S, and Bracewell RR, 2026.
    The tortured past and present of young polymorphic neo-sex chromosomes of the mountain pine beetle.
    Evolution Letters, qrag040 https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrag040
  • Behrens C, Maciejewski MF, Sumarli A, Lucas G, Lagunas-Robles G, Samuk K, and Bell AM, 2026.
    Evidence of parental care as a newly identified reproductive isolating barrier.
    Animal Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70348
  • Lagunas-Robles G, Purcell J, Shimota E^, and Brelsford A, 2026.
    Multiple origins of a sex ratio supergene in Formica ants.
    Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 43, Issue 6, msag135. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag135
  • Lagunas-Robles G, Alam Z^, and Brelsford A, 2025.
    Unexpected absence of a multiple-queen supergene haplotype from supercolonial populations of Formica ants.
    Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 38(4), pp.543–553. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voaf0231
  • Hughes JJ, Lagunas-Robles G, and Campbell P, 2024.
    The role of conflict in the formation and maintenance of variant sex chromosome systems in mammals.
    Journal of Heredity, 115(6), pp.601–624. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esae031
  • Lagunas-Robles G, Purcell J, and Brelsford A, 2021.
    Linked supergenes underlie split sex ratio and social organization in an ant.
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(46), p.e2101427118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101427118
  • Purcell J, Lagunas-Robles G, Rabeling C, Borowiec ML, and Brelsford A, 2021.
    The maintenance of polymorphism in an ancient social supergene.
    Molecular Ecology, 30(23), pp.6246-6258. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16196

Preprints

  • Alam Z, Scarparo G, Lagunas-Robles G, Zarate D, Purcell J, and Brelsford A, 2026.
    Gene flux drives functional changes in an ancient supergene in Formica lemani.
    bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.05.756876
  • Campusano YDJ, Lagunas-Robles G, Stevens L, Ragsdale EJ, and Bracewell RR, 2026.
    Hidden in the genomic bycatch: insights into genome reorganization and population structure of the parasitic nematode Contortylenchus reversus.
    bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.07.743562
  • Purcell J, Scarparo G, Lagunas-Robles G, Sankovitz M, West M, Alam Z, and Brelsford A, 2025.
    Variation in social organization and supergene control along a latitudinal gradient.
    bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.20.665811